Its confirmed now, that there is a revision 2 of the Fuze existing - so before you attempt a manual flash, be sure which revision you got, as there is a separate firmware version for each of them! Its pretty much all explained in the post of the SanDisk official linked above.

Enhancements• Accelerating Scroll wheel speed during navigation
• File cursor position saved for last played file of each Audiobook
• GoList expanded to 200 tracks
• Add entire Artist or Album to GoList with press and hold during navigation
• Support Disc Number ID3 Tags for Sorting Multi Disc collections

Bugs Fixed
• Play Previous disappears after power cycle
• Podcast sort order inverted
• Sometimes Fuze does not respond to Power Off switch
• Unexpected refresh database
• Files placed in Podcasts or Audiobooks folder on external card will not show up in device’s user interface
• Standard line out level is not used in Dock mode
• Device hangs on PC connection with Photo slideshow paused
• Incorrect translations in German language
• Album art does not show up after transferring using Napster application
• Cannot transfer Audible files to external card. Audible manager freezes upon selecting external card to transfer.
• Backlight setting of 5 seconds causes device to hang upon going into backlight saving mode
• MP3 128kbps VBR and CBR files skipping / popping during playback with backlight off
• Certain MP3 128kbps 44KHz CBR files play very slow
• Other miscellaneous fixes

Known Issues• It takes a long time (2+ min) to delete song if device has lots of content
• There is a pause (less than 1 second) when selecting “Play All” – transition not smooth
• Rating info is lost following database refresh on songs loaded in microSD
• With Rhapsody channels content, press and hold to add Artist to GoList may not work. Work around is navigate to Album level to add entire albums from one Artist

I'm not sure, but I believe shutdown turns the player off, when it has been idle for a certain amount of time and sleep turns it off regardless of whether its idle. Like if you fall asleep listening to music, it can safe you battery. LoL - great new function that must have taken months to develope. I bet, they are researching on how to use the year tag RIGHT NOW.

I'm not sure, but I believe shutdown turns the player off, when it has been idle for a certain amount of time and sleep turns it off regardless of whether its idle. Like if you fall asleep listening to music, it can safe you battery. LoL - great new function that must have taken months to develope. I bet, they are researching on how to use the year tag RIGHT NOW.

(Just joking - somehow, the function is useful, of course.)

Shutdown comes into play when it's been on "pause" for your set amount of time....whether an album ends, or a podcast, or if you pause it and forget....you're right about the sleep function....it's popular with the audiobook users in particular.
The Clip has had it , so yeah, not much work probably to incorporate it into the Fuze. I'm glad to see it....since I have so much more music on the Fuze than the Clip. Now I can choose which one to fall asleep to....that's as close as I get to a playlist..but hey, your GoList can be 200 tracks now
I can't say I really need a year listing on the Fuze, but the filetype and bitrate would be cool. I'd rather see that than album art(which I don't worry about if it's not there)The art is cool, but over-rated, IMO

Revision 2 has a different PCB (printed circuit board) all the same functionality... One theory was that it would help them up the file limit. However, they're saying it will be updated to 8,000(from 4,120)next year for everyone, so I don't really know

You know I'm not a happy camper finding this info out after I bought my Fuze. To me it's like v1/v2 e200's arguement all over again. Who's to say that there won't be some compatibility issues between the 2 down the road?. I'm gonna be really PO'ed if my friend can run something on his Revision 2 Fuze that I can't on my Revision 1??.

You know I'm not a happy camper finding this info out after I bought my Fuze. To me it's like v1/v2 e200's arguement all over again. Who's to say that there won't be some compatibility issues between the 2 down the road?. I'm gonna be really PO'ed if my friend can run something on his Revision 2 Fuze that I can't on my Revision 1??.

You might, down the road, have Rockbox on yours and it might not work on his

- so before you attempt a manual flash, be sure which revision you got, as there is a separate firmware version for each of them!

oopshaha! Too late! I didn't see this post while I was loading some music onto my Fuze (v1) then opened the Sansa Updater from system tray. It must have figured out what version I had because it offered up the v1 update (16mb) which I let it install.

I'm definitely going to like the sleep feature! So what is this GoList? Is it like a playlist created "on the go"?